PEARS. 



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pale yellow colour. It is deemed of fine quality and good 

 flavour, and ripens in the month of August. 



WILLIAMS'S DOUBLE BEARING. PR. CAT. 

 This variety was raised in the garden of Mrs. Williams, of 

 Salem, Mass, from a seed of the St. Germain. It is a large 

 pear and resembles its parent, but is of rather greater diameter, 

 and its skin is of a lighter shade. The flesh is of fine quality, 

 melting, but not high flavoured. This tree has the peculiarity 

 of producing, as it were, two crops ; the fruit of the first 

 is of the size above stated, and ripens early in October, that 

 of the second is of much smaller size, and ripens from 

 two to four weeks after. 



BLEEKER'S MEADOW. PR. CAT. 



Meadow Pear. 



This variety originated in Pennsylvania, and is said to be a 

 seedling from the far-famed Seckel, which is highly probable, 

 as the tree greatly resembles that variety in the appearance of 

 the wood, foliage, &tc. Its growth, however, is much more 

 rapid and vigorous, and it will perhaps attain to double the 

 size in the same period. The trees in my grounds have not 

 yet produced fruit, but some specimens sent from a distance, 

 and stated to be of this variety, were more than double the 

 size of the Seckel, and of a yellowish or russet colour, resem- 

 bling somewhat in shape a large bergamot pear, not com- 

 pressed next the stem ; they were also of much excellence as 

 regards quality and flavour, and of beautiful appearance. 

 The period of its maturity is the month of October. 



ORANGE. PR. CAT. *' 



This variety is considerably cultivated in some parts of 

 Rhode Island, under the above title, where it is held in 

 great estimation. Whether it is a foreign or a native varie- 

 ty, is not yet precisely ascertained. It ripens ten or twelve 

 days before the White Doyenne, and is more buttery but less 

 melting than that variety, and inferior to it. In respect to 



